Opening thunderbird from cli in a mailbox with space in name
With a running thunderbird (115.3.2), I can use the CLI command
thunderbird -mail "imap://...@.../testing"
to have it switch to the IMAP folder "testing".
However, I cannot get it to work with folders containing a space, e.g.
thunderbird -mail "imap://...@.../00 Current" thunderbird -mail "imap://...@.../00%20Current" thunderbird -mail imap://...@.../00%20Current
all fail to switch to the existing IMAP folder "00 Current" (Thunderbird lists the address of this folder as imap://...@.../00%20Current under properties).
Is there any better way to escaping space (as well as other characters)?
Thank you very much in advance!
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My reading of http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_-_Thunderbird indicates that the URI must be for a specific email, not a folder. The Current part looks more like a maildir location that an individual mail.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, this was my initial reading, but being a bit desperate for this feature, I just tried it, and it seems to be working flawlessly for folders without a space in them, at least for IMAP. So I wondered if I'm missing a trick with escaping the space character.
Is there any better solutions for this? Perhaps somebody knows a plugin? Maybe running thunderbird in marionette mode may be an option, but I haven't seen much documentation/examples for this. I'd be very grateful for any pointers.
Modified by Christian Saemann
There are lots of suggestions online for escaping spaces on Linux. One is to insert \ before a space, e.g.
00\ Current
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I tried all possibilities that I could think of: %20, backslash in front of space, replacing by underscore, etc. but unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.